Posted by Paul Q. Goyette Shasta County Sheriff’s Deputy Gregory Dean was found not guilty of the homicide of Khamhane Philapandeth by a Shasta County jury on Thursday, October 13, 2005. That same jury convicted Dean of assault under color of authority. The Shasta County Grand Jury indicted Dean on […]
Senior Deputy Probation Officer Theresa Hunnewell faced a no-win situation. Only several months into her promotion as a senior deputy, she found herself with the untenable assignment of trying to find a juvenile placement facility that would accept a minor named “James.” Sounds easy enough except that James had either […]
Posted by Mike Rains As I stated in the first “Installment” of this story, space, limitations preclude me from getting into the sort of detail I would like to about what happened in the two trials of this case. I harbor enough anger, resentment, disappointment, and disgust about the criminal […]
Posted by William R. Rapoport On July 12, 2001, Officer Gilbert Granado of the San Carlos Police Department (PD) came into the department after a court appearance but before his evening shift began and noticed that one of the female records clerks (complainant) seemed to be despondent. He motioned for […]
Probation Corrections Officer and SEBA member Charles Ramirez, who was fired from his position in January 2004 based on allegations of assaulting two minors at the West Valley Detention Center, has been exonerated of all wrongdoing and returned to duty by the San Bernardino County Civil Service Commission. The commission’s […]